(Clearwisdom.net) The Nine Commentaries have been published for exactly two years. We have tens of millions of Dafa practitioners, but the number of people who have withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its related organizations has not yet reached 16 million. If every practitioner helped one person withdraw from the CCP and its affiliates, the number of resignations would have been in the tens of millions by now. If every practitioner helped ten people withdraw, the number would have reached a few hundred million by now. Why haven't we had a big breakthrough yet? When answering such a question from a practitioner, Master said that it was because of resistance from factors arranged by the old forces. Master is so merciful that He always encourages us rather than criticizing us. He was hoping that we would realize it by ourselves that cultivation was our own responsibility, because Master never forces us to do anything. Let's seriously think about such a situation. Isn't it caused by our human notions and our human thoughts, preventing us from encouraging more people to withdraw? Isn't it also because too many practitioners fail to tend to their responsibilities and fail to step forward to fulfill their missions to save sentient beings? Another factor is that those practitioners that did step forward failed to continuously improve.
Since July 20, 1999, the old forces have made countless evil arrangements in the name of "testing Dafa practitioners." Master has constantly taught us the Fa, guided us, and protected and supported us so that we have been able to walk our path to this day. I realize that encouraging ordinary people to withdraw from the CCP and its related organizations to save them is the true test that Master has arranged for us. It tests many things, such as our understanding of the nature of the evil Party, our understanding of Dafa, our faith in Master and the Fa, our cultivation of benevolence, and the wisdom and abilities we obtain from cultivating Dafa.
In the destructive test arranged by the old forces, Master established us. We all know that Dafa was already there a long long time ago. Dafa created everything and encompasses everything. In the course of negating the arrangement of the old forces, Master established us, established us as enlightened beings in the new cosmos with unsurpassed glory. However, we must do well to meet the requirements of such an honor.
Take myself as an example. When the time came to help people withdraw from the CCP and related organizations, I was quite active. I first talked to my immediate family members, then to my other relatives, and then to my students. Things went quite smoothly. However, I was slow in talking to my colleagues and friends. What stopped me from talking to them? I was afraid that they would misunderstand me and think I was lying to them. I especially thought this for those that were government officials, that made lots of money, and that had higher educations. I thought government officials all valued their power the most and were badly poisoned by the evil party. I thought that those that made a lot of money valued their money the most. Both groups benefited from the CCP and, I thought, would be hard to convince. I thought those with advanced educations believed in science and atheism and would also be hard to convince. These were all my assumptions based upon human thoughts. However, I have been firm on one thing, and that is that I must do my best to save them. Through studying the Fa I realized that withdrawing from the CCP and its related organizations is a choice of life and death for the Chinese people. Human beings all have a knowing side. I also believe in the power of Dafa and Master's help. We only have the wish to save people. When we open our mouths to talk to them, things are actually done by Master.
In the past few months, I have made some breakthroughs in encouraging my friends and colleagues to withdraw from the CCP. Actually, it's not as hard as I thought it would be. I didn't have to say too much, and often in just a few minutes people agreed to withdraw. I know Master was helping me and encouraging me. I had some reflections, which is why I wrote this article.
My fellow practitioners, let's let go of our human thoughts and do a better job of saving sentient beings. Let's have no regrets when the Fa rectification occurs in the human world.
November 30, 2006